I have absolutely no faith in this project whatsoever, there is a 99% chance itll fail like all Linux phones and tbh they all deserve to. Not a single mobile Linux OEM has even the slightest idea what the average person wants, hell im a highly technical Linux enthusiast and it doesn't even do what I want. The average person wants:
- Long battery life
- Fast charging
- A good screen
- Decent performance
- A good camera
- Software good enough to tie everything together in a cohesive experience (this one especially they lack in)
Meanwhile more technical people (such as myself) want:
- Good security (both hardware level security and software level security)
- A relockable bootloader (with it being locked from shipping)
- Extended software support (including firmware and microcode updates)
- The ability to seamlessly work on multiple different sim networks
- Longevity (I should not need to get a new one once every three years)
- Reparability
- Software that can accommodate technical usecases without falling apart
Meanwhile Linux phones:
- Can be a portable programming station (why???? No genuenly why would anyone want to do this???? Just get a cheap Thinkpad)
- Can run desktop software (ok thats neat I guess but not neat when all the software is optimized for desktops, the downsides to this completely overshadow any tiny benefit this may provide)
- Have support for multiple mobile Linux distros (congratulations, you have multiple choices and they all suck)
- Have support multiple WMs/DEs (and they're all either under maintained, not maintained at all, or they just suck)
- Have extensive software customization (its a phone, why on earth would I want that???)
- Are cheap (sometimes, also I can just get a cheap used Google Pixel 7)
- Run faster (except not when you take into account the significantly worse hardware)